Since Vokoun's pep talk prior to the 2nd period against the Flyers on March 7th, the Pens have been impressive at both ends of the ice.Since then, the Pens(7-0 including comeback win against the Flyers) have given up 9 goals in 405 minutes for a 1.33 GAA and have been scoring 3.70 G/G(25 goals not counting Sid's shootout winner against Tor).

"According to Ron Cook of the Post-Gazette and 93.7 The Fan, Vokoun told his teammates to stop playing dumb hockey. Stop making silly plays with the puck, play simple, and everything will fall into place."

If it takes a speech by the backup goalie and the players taking matters into their own hands to fix defensive woes stretching back to at least the last quarter of the previous season, that may be a mighty fine idea! And here I was giving DB credit for Vokoun's magic!

"According to Ron Cook of the Post-Gazette and 93.7 The Fan, Vokoun told his teammates to stop playing dumb hockey. Stop making silly plays with the puck, play simple, and everything will fall into place."

So he pretty much said what every Pens player says during intermission interviews after a bad period. Maybe these guys need to start to listen to themselves.

scals37 wrote:interesting stuff... glad someone is speaking up in the locker room, and the backup keeper of all people

Fans are going to have Billy G syndrome for years.

Crosby will be 35 and we'll be asking for a vet that speaks up in the locker room.

I will as long as the description 'vet' refers to a player the superstars respect and is not simply 'player X has played X number of seasons therefore is a veteran'. Leadership, personality, charisma and desire to win do not simply accumulate with the passage of time!

Glad TV is calling out the team as Flower seems unlikely to make that stand, and it seems the team is trying to help out the goalies, let's hope the goalies repay the favour by stealing a few

"According to Ron Cook of the Post-Gazette and 93.7 The Fan, Vokoun told his teammates to stop playing dumb hockey. Stop making silly plays with the puck, play simple, and everything will fall into place... because if they didn't - and the other team got the puck below the penguins goal line, I am fu... I mean we are ******"